With some authentication mechanism (PLAIN for example), sasl_client_start() can return SASL_OK, which translates to virNetSASLSessionClientStart() returning VIR_NET_SASL_COMPLETE. cyrus-sasl documentation is a bit vague as to what to do in such situation, but upstream clarified this a bit in http://asg.andrew.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.cyrus-sasl&msg=10104 When we got VIR_NET_SASL_COMPLETE after virNetSASLSessionClientStart() and if the remote also tells us that authentication is complete, then we should end the authentication procedure rather than forcing a call to virNetSASLSessionClientStep(). Without this patch, when trying to use SASL PLAIN, I get: error :authentication failed : Failed to step SASL negotiation: -1 (SASL(-1): generic failure: Unable to find a callback: 32775) This patch is based on a spice-gtk patch by Dietmar Maurer. --- src/remote/remote_driver.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/remote/remote_driver.c b/src/remote/remote_driver.c index 7181949..e15eeaf 100644 --- a/src/remote/remote_driver.c +++ b/src/remote/remote_driver.c @@ -4125,6 +4125,9 @@ remoteAuthSASL(virConnectPtr conn, struct private_data *priv, * Even if the server has completed, the client must *always* do at least one step * in this loop to verify the server isn't lying about something. Mutual auth */ for (;;) { + if (complete && err == VIR_NET_SASL_COMPLETE) + break; + restep: if ((err = virNetSASLSessionClientStep(sasl, serverin, -- 1.8.4.2 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list